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Parents of newborns or almost every first-time parents face difficulty in handing their baby while the baby is crying. But now, it seems the time has come to end all the difficulties as a new app recently developed by researchers can help to decode baby’s crying and can tell parents what their baby’s crying means.

Brandon and Abby Newsom, couple that last week was blessed with a baby boy Brayden, said the bliss that comes with being new parents also comes with a lot of crying from the baby, but this $3 app will prove very beneficial for them.

Subsequent to festive seasons, it is normal to put on some extra weight and people tend to make New Year resolutions to lose those extra calories. However, losing weight not only requires commitment and willpower, but also certain ways that have already been proved successful. Maintaining weight helps in increasing life span and also healthier life. Excessive weight can result in various diseases like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, osteoporosis, and fertility issues.

On Thursday, a federal judge granted a two-week restraining order against an Arkansas law, which restricts use of the so-called abortion pill. The grant has been given a day before the statute was to become effective.

The law has been challenged by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which has two clinics in Arkansas. On Wednesday, the US District Judge Kristine Baker heard arguments prior to permitting the group's request for a temporary stay that prevents the enforcement of the law, on Thursday.

Owing to denial of service (DDoS ) attack, BBC’s main news website was down for many hours on Thursday. Visitors received an error message. The BBC released an official statement that the outage has taken place owing to a technical issue, but the problem was later attributed to the attack.

Uber is one of the most popular choices when it comes to ride services. But owing to increased number of calls at New Year’s eve, many people had to pay a lot extra to go back home after seeing fireworks. Uber’s Facebook page was full of complaints on Friday in which passengers said they were charged up to hundreds of dollars more than the usual price to reach back home from the city at night.

It seems Microsoft has taken right decision when seen from the point of view of its customers. Several years ago, Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular. At that time, Microsoft decided not to tell the victims about the hacking of their sites and allowing the hackers to continue their campaign.

Home births were found to be overall safe with a slight increased risk of death of baby in America, unveils a study of Oregon births. Home births were also associated with lower chance of a C-section. The researchers said that overall risks to the baby remained low irrespective of the birth plan.

New Year is going to be extra special for sky gazers, as they will have many opportunities in 2016 to see meteors, four of the five bright planets and by the end of the first month of the year, all five planets will be present across the predawn sky.

In the morning hours of January 4, the Quadrantid meteor shower will peak in the early morning hours with 40 meteors or more passing the sky per hour in dark conditions. In mid-January, the moon, Venus and Saturn will appear alongside each other in the southeastern predawn sky.

After conducting research for the past many years, researchers have finally taken substantial step towards a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. With the help of new gene-editing technique, known as Crispr-Cas9, researchers have been able to cut the DNA of chromosomes at selected sites to remove or insert segments. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a progressive muscle-wasting disease that affects boys, putting them in wheelchairs by age 10, followed by an early death from heart failure or breathing difficulties.

You can expect everything from Nadine, latest social robot developed by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), as from humans on this job. Developed by Prof Nadia Thalmann, Nadine is powered by intelligent software similar to Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana.

Nadine has impressive features and looks almost like a human being with soft skin and flowing brunette hair. Her unique features include being friendly, greeting people, remembering person’s name and conversations taken place with her last time.